From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2006-10-25T08:23:34+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT:usage of uml]

On 10/22/06, Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 07:14:09AM +0900, David Vallner wrote:
> > Chris Carter wrote:
> > > Our team does believe in Agile and XP
> > > design concepts, so we do a lot of testing, and speccing, which we feel
> > > better documents our code than UML.
> >
> > And here I thought programming was an engineering discipline, and not a
> > religious practice. (If you confuse those two, Picocontainer happens.
> > /me ducks rotten vegetables.)
>
> I always found the following quite an interesting read:
>
> http://starshine.org/xteddy/thomas/~n6tadam/CodeAsDesign.pdf
>

Hmm, I'm having a deja-vu.

I organized a panel discussion at OOPSLA '93 on "The Role of Methods
and CASE in OO Software Development"
http://www.math.utah.edu/ftp/pub/tex/bib/idx/sigplan1990/27/10/145-145.html

Grady Booch was on the panel, this was IIRC before the three amigos
and the convergence on UML.

Dave Thomas*  took the position that the best possible CASE tool was a
code browser.

* A different one, the guy who started Object Technology
International, now enjoying life in the Caribean after making his
fortune selling Smalltalk and OTI to IBM.
-- 
Rick DeNatale

My blog on Ruby
http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/